Assailants set trucks, buses on fire in northern Ethiopia

ESAT News (November 2, 2016)

Unknown assailants attacked trucks and busses belonging to the ruling party on Tuesday in Gondar, according to ESAT’s sources.

The armed men ambushed and set ablaze the heavy duty truck belonging to Dashen Beer, owned by the business empire of the ruling party. Two medium size busses were also set on fire in the attack.

Several people were feared injured in the exchange of fire with security forces accompanying the truck.

Armed groups have launched similar attacks in the last few months in northern Ethiopia where anti-regime sentiments run high.

In Tis Abay on Monday, four people were killed when an armed person killed a federal police and injured two soldiers. The alleged assailant, Mikru Berhanu, was killed after the attack.

The attack came contrary to Ethiopian regime’s narrative that the state of emergency declared early in October has brought peace and stability in the country.